Keynes was right…again…

Well…I wonder if the repubs in congress are getting whiplash from changing their positions so rapidly on government spending? With the new numbers out yesterday that showed that the economy contracted by .1 percent over the last quarter, the repubs are in full howl that they are right with their new position that we should cut more spending…never mind that during the campaign, they ran on the idea that the automatic sequester, that they agreed to, would push the economy back into recession. The consensus from real economists is that the contraction was caused by the huge cut in defense spending that happened over the last quarter…down almost 22% due to getting ready for the cuts to come if the sequester remains in place. What I find really funny about this whole thing is that the repubs did not believe any of the numbers coming out of the administration over the course of the campaign when they showed that the economy was growing and unemployment was falling…but now the repubs seize on this “government” number and loudly proclaim that they have leverage now for more spending cuts….can these folks get any more stupid? They keep trying…and succeeding…to the detriment of the rest of America…geez…

Oh…kind of buried the lead there…Keynes was right…cutting spending in a time of near recession will lead to lower growth….but the repubs don’t believe in facts…or Keynes….

January 31st

Well…it was a day yesterday and I won at pool so that was okay…but, it was a cocktail night so I am running late today and just realized that I didn’t come back for a second one…but, I was one ahead for the month so I should be able to make the goal…slept okay for the first time since last Sat but no dreams to speak of so it was only half good….I am dreading going out to start the car this morning with all of the rain yesterday and then the freeze last night…might have to try to melt the doors with some hot water…but, if that doesn’t work I may just say the hell with it and not go out for the papers….I do have stuff to do around here today and I have a pork loin to cook that I have been brining all night so that is something to look forward to…more later…I think this one will be on gun control and the craziness that is oozing out of the gun nuts..

January 30th

Well…it was a day yesterday and I did get the top down ride in and a great photo of the car that is now the new wallpaper on the phone…replace the space needle that has been on there since I was out there….slept okay last night and I was good so I feel okay today…not looking forward to the weather change that is coming later today but I am getting groceries this morning so I can hibernate when it starts to snow…could be 8 inches or so over the next day but we are almost into Feb so that means only another month…I do need to clean today and get the papers out so they don’t topple on me when I sit here to write…if I don’t get them out today…it will be a while…more later…

One of the problems with liars…

Well…I am really quite amused with the outrage..outrage, I tell ya, that is coming out of the repub party in response to the Obama win and the inaugural address where he laid out the progressive path forward that the electorate voted for in November. He ran on some very clear progressive principles like having the rich pay their fair share, protection of social security and the rest of the safety net and now he has the gall to try to give the electorate what they voted for? That is one of the big problems with the liars on the right…they think everyone lies like they do and they can’t even fathom that someone would keep promises that were made; that everyone are the venal, amoral crazies that they are…and I think they get it from the false equivilancy that has been pushed in the news media over the past 20 years or so that equate the parties as being just mirror images from the left and right. That’s why I laughed so hard at the surprise that ole Paul Ryan exhibited on the Sunday shows this weekend…never mind that he changed his positions three times in 5 minutes; showing the utter lack of principles the idiot has…it is the surprise that any politician would keep their promises to the country that revealed what an utter empty vessel this supposed “brain” of the repub party is….keep it up Paul…things get better for us every time you open your mouth…geez…

January 29th

Well…the first thing that popped into my head this morning was this Pink Floyd lyric..”the sun is the same in a relative way but we’re older….shorter of breath and one day closer to death…” yeah, it’s pretty depressing but that’s how I feel this morning…slept okay even so that can’t be it…I think it’s that another month has gone by without a bite on a job and with the money just going out it feel like tiny pieces of me keep going out with it…when the money runs out, I think I’ll probably just disappear into the ether…and leave no trace…I do have a few things I should do today but I’m not sure if I’ll do them or not…just don’t have a lot of interest in it at this point so I guess I’ll just let the day roll and see what happens….more later…

Haven’t noodled in a while…

Well…still in the funk from this morning and even I’m getting bored with my topics…so, no politics today…or, I should say it won’t be the primary topic…or, it could be…this one is just a free form one that I have no idea where it will end up…it’s been a tough couple of weeks with being so broke but the car is running right so that is a plus…and I may even be able to put the top down tomorrow…got to keep the crazy bubbling or I won’t be me…I think I may have slept about 3 hours last night and I am still just exhausted so there may be a nap in my future…have been wracking my brain for most of the morning trying to figure out what to do to figure out how to get some cash coming in…I never would have expected to be my age with 4 degrees and not be able to find any sort of work…but, you’ve heard me bitch about that a lot so I think I’ll stop….okay…there is some politics that I wanted to talk about…what the hell is is with those batshit crazy repubs that think that just because they don’t agree with the president, it is an impeachable offense? That has been the theme from a bunch of the tea party nuts over the past week or so…the latest introducing a constitutional amendment that would make not balancing the budget raise to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that is the bar for impeachment…but the idiot boy forgets that it is the congress that spends money….this is the quality of the tea party folks that seem like they flunked high school civics class….stupidity, thy name is tea party…geez…

January 28th

Well…another crappy night of sleep and I am just exhausted this morning….up almost once an hour and that is not good at all…oh, well…it happened and it’s time to live with it…it was a lazy day yesterday that was dominated by waiting for the stormageddon that was forecast all day for last night but it doesn’t look like we got too much ice so that is good….don’t have anywhere to be anyway so I’m not sure why I care…I do have some things to do today but I’m not sure what they are yet…just can’t get the brain going yet and that’s even without cocktails last night….more later…and I mean it this time…

Another 1% er crying in his beer…

Well..when are the pampered one percent going to learn to keep their mouths shut? I’ve just about had it with these spoiled idiots complaining that they are going to close their business, fire employees, or quit their job because Obama raised their taxes. These guys are so stupid they don’t understand it was the congress that raised the taxes…Obama just signed the law so get your fricking facts straight. The latest of these idiots to spout nonsense is the golfer Phil Mickleson, who late last week talked to a reporter and whined that he was going to quit golfing because California raised state taxes and the federal rate went up 3% on people like him that make millions…notice I didn’t say “earned” millions because getting 48 million dollars in one year from making commercials and playing golf is not earning it by any stretch of the imagination. Well Phil, go ahead and quit..go back to your gated community and the other one percent idiots that you seem to identify with so much…and, let me give you one piece of advice: the money you make is paid for by people like me who buy the products that you endorse so it’s probably not a good idea to rub our broke noses in the shit that you are spouting…we’d love to have 24 million dollars after taxes so, shut the hell up…geez…

January 27th

Well…it was just another day yesterday but I did make some ham bone soup that came out good but that was about it…sitting here watching Chelsea losing to Brentford…which would be like the Tigers losing to a high school team…and I really don’t like Chelsea so that is pretty cool…I do feel a little crappy today but I know it’s a bug so I guess I’ll just have to live with it…okay…can’t think at all right now so I’m going to go back to the couch and have another cup of coffee…

What a stupid reason…

Well…if you were here yesterday, you know about the Koch fueled push to change how electoral college votes are awarded to try to rig the election for the repubs….the reason that the repubs in Virgina are using to justify this blatant attempt to steal presidential elections is so damn funny that I just had to do another one dealing with it. One of the idiot repubs there explains that the areas with less population are feeling that their votes aren’t counting as much as the urban areas…yep, that’s right, this idiot is proposing that a town or rural area with a few thousand voters should count the same as the urban areas that have millions of voters…oh, and the area with millions of voters are the scary “urban” voters that the repubs don’t feel are “real” Americans…or, more likely, won’t vote for the batshit crazy repubs. That is what apportioning electoral votes by congressional district would do….it would mean that the white, rural areas of states with less than half the votes would still control how many and to who the electoral votes would go to. What else are these guys going to do to destroy our democracy? One of the things these short sighted, amoral asses just don’t get is that they have just handed our side the best issue we could have hoped for for the 2014 elections…just imagine the ads that will be run against the repubs that are doing this nonsense…especially since more than 80% of the American people are dead against this kind of shenanigan….please proceed….geez…